The first transplant of the year at the Hospital de Clínicas was carried out successfully. Photo: Courtesy.
The first transplant of the year carried out at the Hospital de Clínicas, dependent on the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the UNA, benefited a 13-year-old adolescent, who received a new kidney from a cadaveric donor.
Since early today, the Pediatric Kidney Transplant Team and the Department of Pediatric Nephrology of the FCM-UNA they worked hard to make it come true a new kidney transplant at the Clinical Hospital.
The beneficiary is a 13-year-old patient a native of San Ignacio Misiones, who had been diagnosed some time ago with a End-stage chronic kidney disease secondary to Bilateral Congenital Renal Hypoplasia.
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This young He had been undergoing numerous hemodialysis sessions since November 2020 in the Department of Pediatric Nephrology of the Hospital de Clínicas, for which reason now you will have the opportunity to access a better quality of life.
“This transplant, which it’s the first of the yearis carried out thanks to the generous decision of a family that, faced with the irreversibility of losing a member, gives the possibility that other people can continue living“, stated the Dr. Agustin Saldivar, Head of Transplants at FCM-UNAhighlighting organ donation made by a cadaveric donor.
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They were part of the surgical process Dr. Juan Meza and Dr. Alberto Pereira, from the Department of Anesthesiology; Dr. Agustín Saldívar, vascular surgeon; and as assistants the surgeons Dr. Blanca Barrientos and José Gamarra; Dr. Magali Martínez and Cristhian Jiménez, from the Department of Urology; Dr. Leticia Florentín, Head of the Department of Pediatric Nephrology; Dr. Víctor García and Dr. Gabriela Gutiérrez, pediatric nephrologists. Likewise, the intervention was accompanied by the residents Dr. Carolina Vera and Cris Ramírez; Lic. Maria José Gómez, instrumentalist, and circulating nurses Raquel Martínez and Lourdes Salinas.
